[Coco] NitrOS-9 EOU (Ease of Use) Beta 5 released

[L. Curtis Boyle]

The ram drive has to be INIZed and formatted first. (You can dmode it to the sides, cylinders and sectors per track first; this ram drive will let your duplicate a real floppy layout, so that you can use it to backup real floppies to/from the ram drive with the BACKUP command, (Or use it to become a disk duplicator), right up to 89 track/double sided drives. 

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> On May 2, 2020, at 5:52 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Charlie, EOU_USER is a blank HD image.  OVCC/VCC only allows one HD.  We are working on Drivewire for Beta 6 the Matchbox version already has CocoNet which is a similar system. Ram drive issue is noted now. Myself I don’t use them much but I’ll check into it.
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>> On May 2, 2020, at 2:42 PM, "coco at jechar.ca" <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
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>> Curtis
>> 
>> Just Tried the EOU Beta5
>> 
>> Unsuccessful with EOU_USER.vhd but 63SDC.vhd worked
>> Running OVCC on Ubuntu with FD-502 in MPI Slot 1 and Hard Drive + Cloud9 RTC in MPI Slot 4
>> On this system the Ram Disk program does not seem to work.
>> 
>> Bugs:
>> 
>> 1. Typing free /r0 gets 16384000 Sectors which would be 4GB way more memory then a coco has.
>> 2. Typing echo TEST > /r0/test   gives Error 241 : Sector Error
>> 3. Typing dmode /r0  indicates a much smaller drive ( about 128K )
>> 4. but reformating  format /r0 and retrying echo TEST > /r0/x still gives
>> Error 241 : Sector Error.
>> 
>> Other Issues:
>> 
>> Don't have an SDC card and would like to try it on a real coco are you
>> working on a Drive Wire version ?
>> 
>> Do you have plans for a special mouse / joystick driver for the emulator
>> that would capture up to two specified USB ports on the Host OS
>> and auto release the ports upon mouse/joystick disconnection ?
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
>>>> On 2020-05-01 15:32, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>>> I think you might be one of the first to actually read through the
>>> whole thing! ;)
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> On May 1, 2020, at 12:20 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:11 PM L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>>>> Please feel free to send feedback, bug reports, etc. to my email below, or to the #nitros9eou channel on the Tandy Color Computer (Coco) Discord server. Any questions can be directed to myself, or Bill Nobel, or the NitrOS-9 Facebook group, or the #nitros9eou channel on Discord as well.
>>>> Curtis, Bill and Team:
>>>> I just finished reading the release notes and I really want to
>>>> congratulate you all for this effort. Greatly appreciated!
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